Mr. Belloc objects to "The outline of history"
by H. G. Wells
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"I am the least controversial of men. Public disputations have rarely attracted me. For years I have failed to respond to Mr. Henry Arthur Jones, who long ago invented a set of opinions for me and invited me to defend them with an enviable persistence and vigour. Occasionally I may have corrected some too gross public misstatement about me—too often I fear with the acerbity of the inexperienced. But now, in my sixtieth year, I find myself drawn rather powerfully into a disputation with Mr. Hilaire Belloc. I bring an unskilled pen to the task."
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- MR. BELLOC OBJECTS TO “THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY”
- FOREWORD
- CONTENTS
- MR. BELLOC OBJECTS TO “THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY”
- I MR. BELLOC’S ARTS OF CONTROVERSY
- Disconcerting Pose of Mr. Belloc
- Remarkable Portrait of Mr. Wells
- Gathering Courage of Mr. Belloc
- Reflections upon the Real Mr. Belloc
- The Clue to Mr. Belloc’s Disconcerting Pose
- Graceful Concessions to Mr. Belloc
- II THE THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION STATED
- Natural Selection is Pure Common-Sense
- Natural Selection Has Nothing to Do with the Origin of Variations
- Testing the Theory
- Some Irrelevant Questions
- III MR. BELLOC AS A SPECIMEN CRITIC OF NATURAL SELECTION
- Mr. Belloc’s Mental Indigestion
- Mr. Belloc’s Bird-Lizard
- Troubles of Mr. Belloc as a Matrimonial Agent
- Mr. Belloc Comes to His Evidence
- Mr. Belloc a Fixed Type
- Triumphant Demand of Mr. Belloc
- A Magnificent Generalisation
- IV MR. BELLOC’S ADVENTURES AMONG THE SUB-MEN: MANIFEST TERROR OF THE NEANDERTHALER
- Mr. Belloc as Iconoclast
- Mr. Belloc Discovers a Mare’s-Nest
- The Chasing of Mr. Belloc Begins
- Where Was the Garden of Eden?
- V FIXITY OR PROGRESS
- The Idea of Fixed Humanity
- The Fundamental Issue
- The Idea of Progressive Humanity
- The New Thought and the Old
- Old Wine in New Bottles
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